Archive for March, 2007

Lauriol Plaza: Mexican Paradise

It’s official, DC. Spring is here. Warm weather has arrived. The ice storms are gone, our spirits have been lifted, and our minds are thinking of lifting spirits (aka “drinking heavily”). There are two windows of time in this city when the weather is perfect, neither bitter cold or disgustingly hot [...]

Google Maps Breaks DC Letter Street Names

“Hope you don’t need to use maps in our nation’s capital!” Those of you who regularly use Google Maps might have noticed that ever since late February, the addresses and directions may have been stumbling over most letter streets. Seems that a recent update of Google Maps’ address parser has broken addresses along streets [...]

Overwood in Alexandria

Tables

Originally uploaded by tbridge.

One of my favorite places to take friends when they’re passing through town is the Boulevard Woodgrill. Now, full disclosure, I’m their web guy, and a friend of the management, but I’ve been a regular fixture there for about four years off and [...]

Mai Thai is the Shiznit

I had lunch yesterday at Mai Thai at 6 King Street in Alexandria, right by the Torpedo Factory. Honestly, I was a little hesitant at first, knowing that it was nestled in a high-rent area and figuring that I could only get the priciest of meals there. How wrong I was!
For $21 my lunch companion [...]

What qualifies as front-page news?

I don’t want to get the reputation here as a Washington Post basher – when I moved here from Miami I was delighted to be somewhere with a paper superior to the one from my home town that I felt was somewhat trashy – but the Post’s page 5 placement of this story on radio [...]

Mike Panetta: Call the Speaker.

Mike Panetta is the DC Shadow Representive (not to be confused with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton) and while I’m not sure adding an amendment is a “rare parliamentary procedure”, it does strike me that his point is fairly clear: Let’s get a vote held on the DC Voting Rights Act!
In specific, Shadow Rep [...]

Last Chance for “Form Over Function”

Maria Simonsson’s display of fiber vessels called “Form Over Function” will be going off display after April 1st, so this is the last week you can go enjoy the works. The idea of fiber vessels may seem silly at first thought but seeing how real and functional they look, you might never guess that they [...]

Arlington Drafthouse – It’s What’s for Dinner. Or not.

I made my maiden voyage to the Arlington Cinema ‘n’ Drafthouse this weekend and was excited at the prospect of table service during the movie, and even more excited once I saw the menu. Unfortunately, the very swift delivery of my fountain-poured Coke product was the highlight of the dining experience.
I ordered “nachos deluxe,” which [...]

Listening to thieves

I’m sitting in Starbucks – having been chased out of my home, my first choice for a comfortable place to work and drink coffee – and twenty minutes ago I was amazed at how many people come here to conduct business.
Now I am amazed that apparently nobody comes here to conduct legitimate business. Maybe its [...]

Smithsonian Chief Steps Down

Lawrence Small stepped down from his post atop the Smithsonian Institution today, amid furor over his extravaganceas the Senate had voted this past week to freeze the $17M increase in spending budgeted from Congress. Things were looking pretty rough for Small, and it’s good that he decided to find someone else to pay over [...]

Webb Staffer Arrested for Gun at Capitol

One of Virginia Senator Jim Webb’s staffers was arrested today for trying to take a loaded firearm into the Capitol. Relax, relax, it looks like he wasn’t going to go all postal on someone, it looks more likely that the staffer was carrying the Senator’s gun, which was left loaded and inside his personal [...]

Half Photo, Half Painting

If it weren’t for the tools available to us in the digital age that we live in, many forms of art would either be impossible or extremely difficult. It wasn’t long ago that people were forced to use film cameras (gasp!) as there was no alternative. You had to have dark room skills [...]

Final Four Fever! Hoya Saxa!

The Hoyas once again snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, beating UNC in the quarterfinals to advance to the Final Four. This is the second year in a row that the greater DC area has had a team in the finals of the big dance, and this weekend’s matchup with the Buckeyes should [...]

An Open Letter from a Season Ticket Holder

Dear Stan Kasten & The Lerners.
This city has sacrificed its finances, its land, its honor and its pride in order to get MLB to have a baseball team here in DC. This city, on behalf of the fans, have done things that even rock-band groupies wouldn’t do. The very least that you can [...]

A380 at Dulles

The Airbus A380 is visiting Dulles, and will be doing a demo flight today (Monday, March 26). Don’t expect to be able to fly with it, or visit the aircraft to see its luxurious insides, or even get a good chance to view it from the terminals, on the ground or above it. IAD’s [...]

Linkwhoring

Why work to create some cool links and content for you when I can link to this Metafilter post and have a beer instead? Virginia has put together a great post there with links about the architect behind the US Capitol, the capitol itself, the art and architecture thereof and more. If you [...]

How Odd: DCA @ 6am is Packed!

Photo by DC Metroblogger

I hate early morning flights. I would much rather fly late or overnight and have a full first day wherever I am going.
Seems I am in the minority of those who travel out of National airport on the weekend.
Where my usual 10pm to 12am departures are half [...]

Hey EXPRESS, you stink

discourtesy via WaPo

While writing yesterday’s post about the Jonathan Coulton show today I found that he’d been written up in the May 22nd edition of Express, WaPo’s freebie ripoff of USA Today’s in-depth reporting. I could read the article itself on page 53 of the PDF edition [...]

Hoya Saxa! On to the Elite 8

With just 2.5 seconds to go, Jeff Green launched an off-balance shot that put the Hoyas over the top tonight, beating Vandy 66-65 in regulation. Next up is the winner of the USC/UNC game, and a spot in the Final Four. Do the Hoyas have what it takes to go all the way? [...]

Sign of Spring #2: CVS Blocking 15th

Photo by DC Metroblogger

What would downtown DC egress be like if it were not for CVS? Every Friday until it is again too cold, the delivery truck will block 15th Street and block in parked cars.
The delivery men will then use the sidewalk, street, and the whole corner to sort their [...]